Bee Keeping
- frank lee bent
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Bee Keeping
Hi everyone, I have been working on a new project, bee keeping in Kien Svay.
You can follow my progress here,https://www.facebook.com/jameswdumar/ or if anyone is interested in seeing more, I can write a bit about it here on CEO on request.
I am currently working with 28 hives and expanding rapidly.
Most of the components are imported and made from shit pine.
I find I can make a lot of it locally in semi hardwood for a much increased longevity.
You can follow my progress here,https://www.facebook.com/jameswdumar/ or if anyone is interested in seeing more, I can write a bit about it here on CEO on request.
I am currently working with 28 hives and expanding rapidly.
Most of the components are imported and made from shit pine.
I find I can make a lot of it locally in semi hardwood for a much increased longevity.
- Duncan
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Re: Bee Keeping
Agreed,,, pine is useless for long term use, I always made mine from macrocapa http://cypress-sawmill.co.nz/macrocarpa_specs.html which has a natural turpentine oil in it .
Those are fancy handles on your hives, why not use a skill saw with a 10 to 12 '' blade and do several cuts about half the thickness of the timber.
Those are fancy handles on your hives, why not use a skill saw with a 10 to 12 '' blade and do several cuts about half the thickness of the timber.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
- frank lee bent
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Re: Bee Keeping
Agreed. The hives with the furniture handles were inherited. They are 12 frame and normally run unsupered.
This is a new industry in Cambodia, they are adopting the fucked up management practices of Vietnam and Thailand.
They extract ALL frames once a month or so, killing countless larvae and producing thin unripened honey in the process.
Needless to say, I will manage the stock properly.
I am getting these made now locally, you will see the handles on the partially painted boxes are routed in.
That was the preference of the maker rather than what you or I would do they are massively tooled up.
This is a new industry in Cambodia, they are adopting the fucked up management practices of Vietnam and Thailand.
They extract ALL frames once a month or so, killing countless larvae and producing thin unripened honey in the process.
Needless to say, I will manage the stock properly.
I am getting these made now locally, you will see the handles on the partially painted boxes are routed in.
That was the preference of the maker rather than what you or I would do they are massively tooled up.
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Re: Bee Keeping
MODS, Frank lee bent should ban himself for outing himself.....
Other than that, good work, it would be nice to be updated on progress.
Other than that, good work, it would be nice to be updated on progress.
- frank lee bent
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Re: Bee Keeping
I have outed my self numerous times in the past. It is a measure of how unremarkable I am that you did not know.
for those who do not login to facebook, there is still a feed on the bottom of my site
http://biologiccambodia.com/
for those who do not login to facebook, there is still a feed on the bottom of my site
http://biologiccambodia.com/
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Re: Bee Keeping
You are certainly a man of many talents frank.
- frank lee bent
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Re: Bee Keeping
Thanks, mostly forced upon me by the need to survive.
But Bee keeping runs in my family. We always had them when I was a kid.
I had 40 hives back of Cairns for over 15 years.
But Bee keeping runs in my family. We always had them when I was a kid.
I had 40 hives back of Cairns for over 15 years.
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Re: Bee Keeping
No money, but plenty of honey? I hope it all works out for you. It's about time we had some reasonably priced natural honey in the shops.
"Can you spare some cutter for an old man?"
- frank lee bent
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Re: Bee Keeping
well I am working for bees rather than honey, but hopefully i will get a bit. you can rapidly expand your colonies by provision of honey and pollen to new small hives you split off the production hives. You just need to produce queen bees to head up the new colonies, but it takes some time for the new queen to lay enough eggs to provide sufficient foraging bees for honey surplus.
in fact, i will prepare to be feeding sugar and pollen until september if i can get sufficient money for the wood ware required to accomodate the increased number of hives.
but maybe i won't have to feed, they are working very strongly now due to the unseasonably rainy conditions.
in any case a particular locale can be very productive or entirely devoid of floral resources.
if you are serious you either have to be prepared to move them or feed them from time to time.
though they are insects they are still livestock, but arguably the most efficient or productive of all domesticates when you factor in pollination.
in fact, i will prepare to be feeding sugar and pollen until september if i can get sufficient money for the wood ware required to accomodate the increased number of hives.
but maybe i won't have to feed, they are working very strongly now due to the unseasonably rainy conditions.
in any case a particular locale can be very productive or entirely devoid of floral resources.
if you are serious you either have to be prepared to move them or feed them from time to time.
though they are insects they are still livestock, but arguably the most efficient or productive of all domesticates when you factor in pollination.
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Re: Bee Keeping
looks like you lost a bit of timber out in the provinces FLB, looking well
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